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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Effective February 11, 2025, Vineet Agarwal, Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) of Korro Bio, Inc., or Korro, is taking a temporary medical leave of absence.
Accordingly, effective from February 11, 2025, Korro’s Board of Directors appointed Dr. Ram Aiyar, President and Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer), to serve as Korro’s interim principal financial officer, and Mr. Oliver Dolan, Senior Vice President, Finance, to serve as Korro’s interim principal accounting officer, in each case, in addition to their current duties.
Biographical information for Dr. Aiyar is set forth in Korro’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on April 29, 2024 and is incorporated herein by reference. Dr. Aiyar will not receive any additional compensation in connection with this interim appointment.
Mr. Dolan, age 42, has served as Korro’s Senior Vice President of Finance since January 2024. Prior to joining Korro, Mr. Dolan served as Vice President, Accounting, Tax and Treasury at Unity Biotechnology from December 2020 to December 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Dolan served as Head of Finance at Haven Healthcare from May 2020 to December 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Dolan served as Vice President of Finance at Compass Therapeutics from October 2018 to May 2020. Mr. Dolan holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University College Dublin and he is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.
There is no arrangement or understanding between Dr. Aiyar or Mr. Dolan and any other persons, respectively, pursuant to which either was selected as an officer. There are no family relationships among any of Korro’s directors or executive officers and either Dr. Aiyar or Mr. Dolan, and neither Dr. Aiyar nor Mr. Dolan has any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
In connection with his interim appointment, Mr. Dolan has entered into Korro’s standard form of indemnification agreement, the form of which is filed as Exhibit 10.6 to its Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 6, 2023 and is incorporated by reference herein.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| KORRO BIO, INC. | ||||||
| Date: February 11, 2025 | By: | /s/ Ram Aiyar | ||||
| Name: | Ram Aiyar | |||||
| Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer | |||||